It's better to make the wrong choice, " my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

All you need to know, boy, " Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

We should know who they are, " I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.

You must tell your money how you want to live your life, and not the other way round.

The only man worth having in your life is one that would never let you walk away.

People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.